How Has Classical Music Changed From The Baroque Period

Baroque is a style in art and a set of styles of European classical music. The word Baroque is also used in architecture, painting, sculpture, dance and literature. The word Baroque comes from Portuguese the word barocco which means strange. It was first used in France to mean works of art that did not follow the current trend. The Baroque Period was between the Renaissance and the Classical periods and it was from about 1575 to about 1770. In the Baroque period, there were lots of absolutist monarchs (the ruler is a dictator) in Europe. Baroque art is usually very playful and has many parts. It started in Italy. It then spreads to the Catholic countries in Europe. Finally, it also spread to the Protestant ones. Famous composers in the baroque period were Alessandro Scarlatti (1600-1725) and Handel (1685–1759). Scarlatti wrote over 100 operas and is believed to have changed to approach to the genre from his
Sometimes the composer didn't write all the chords and left a symbol or a shape and the performer would choose the notes. In the baroque period opera was being invented. There was a musical change happening. With opera being introduced the composers were writing opera so the audience needed to hear the words. In the baroque period people liked large spaces and a lot of "fancy" furniture like St. Paul's Cathedral so a lot of music was played at St. Pauls Cathedral and at the time the recently built St Basils Cathedral, Moscow. Organs and some harpsichords had at least two keyboards. The player could change from to one to another make two different sounds that contrasted each other. Baroque music is often a melody with a bass line at the bottom e.g., a singer and a cello. The cello would be the bass line because it is low-pitched and wouldn’t over-ride the melody. The cello would be accompanied by a harpsichord or organ that also played the bass